'As an author Melville both courted failure and scorned success.'(pg. 613, A
Companion to Melville Studies). How many famous legends in time have existed to
know no fame. How many remarkable artist have lived and died never receiving due
credit for their work. Herman Melville is clearly an artist of words. Herman Melville is
certainly a prodigy when it comes to writing. Herman Melville never received hardly any
credit for any of his works. Melville wrote such novels as Moby-Dick, and Billy Budd.
Melville wrote about things that he knew about. He wrote about his own experiences.
The one thing that he loved, and knew the most about was whaling.
Herman Melville was born in 1819, the son of Allan and Maria Melville. He was
one of a Family of eight children - four boys and four girls - who was raised comfortably
Herman Melville, American author. Reproduction of ...
English: The grave of Herman Melville in Woodlawn ...
Photo of Herman Melvillein a nice neighborhood in New York City. Herman Melville came from a famous blood
line out of Albany, NY. Melville's grandfather, General Peter Gansevoort, was a hero.
Even though the General died six years before Melville was born, Melville still put him
in his book, Pierre.
On the outer side of the blood line there was Major Melville. The Major was a
wealthy Boston merchant who was one of the famous 'Mohawks' who boarded the ship
of the East India Company that night of 1773, and dumped the cargo in to the Boston
Harbor. Later Major Melville became the Naval Officer of The Port of Boston, a post
given to him by Gorge Washington. It is like the two blood lines fitted together perfectly
to create Herman Melville. Herman had the strength of the General, and the crazy hart
of the Major.
Herman Melville was 'hardly more than a boy' when he ran out to...